Band

When you discover your parents' cassette tape with The Beatles and you cannot get away from it, it can lead to your own guitar. And then to an electric guitar. Meanwhile, you are looking for and listening to a lot of British music, and suddenly you find yourself playing your own song. It definitely makes sense to start a band. (Filip Prahl, vocals, guitar)

When you know how a lot of things are difficult to express by words. How stronger the feelings are than the reality of the outside world. Exactly defined terms and any structure melt. The songs disappear and there is just the music itself. It's hard, but it's somewhere there. The reason for the existence of the band. (Honza Novotný, bass, vocals)

When you love your drums, you can play them from the 'bottom'. You can play as no one else. You can not learn it at school, you have to feel it. Music is about feeling and expressing yourself. And when it suddenly comes and it's exactly what you're looking for, the band finally gives you a sense of freedom and space to express yourself internally. (Martin "Máťa" Valter, drums)

Holborn Stereo is a mix of all this. It is not a band where there are members just because their instruments are needed. The British sounding and only English sung songs are created by them all.

Technical Specification

Location: From Prague to Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
Number of members: 3
Genre: indie-rock
Influences: The Beatles, Britpop (Oasis, Blur, Pulp), Pink Floyd and a long list of other great music

The Song List

21st Century

The more you love
The more things tie you down
The less you sleep
The more you miss your time

The more you hear
The more to filter out
The more you see
The more enhanced reality

21st century, no robot's humanoid
21st century, love is still paranoid
21st century, the world's still the same
21st century, still playing the same games

Lay me down in the clover
Wake me up when it's over
I'd like to lie in the clover
Wake me up when it's over

21st century, no robot's humanoid
21st century, love is still paranoid
21st century, the world's still the same
21st century, still playing the same games

The more you say
The more there's to explain
The less you play
The more you're in the game

21st century, no robot's humanoid
21st century, love is still paranoid
21st century, the world's still the same
21st century, still playing the same games

The more you love
The more things tie you down
The less you sleep
The more you miss your time

Alone (In The Tube)

By Filip Prahl

Alone in the tube
Just with a beggar and his hat
Blindly walking the way
You know so well

And though you are not blind
Your eyes cannot see
The empty spaces 'round
And the lonely people inside

Me, I wanna get out
Me, just wanna get out
Me, I wanna get out
Me, just wanna get out

You wanna live
You wanna fly
You wanna float
Don’t wanna die

It seems you’ll never see
But maybe you will be
Able just to feel
The light and dark

Me, I wanna get out
Me, just wanna get out
Me, I wanna get out
Me, just wanna get out

At My Door

By Honza Novotný

Smiles dissolve in pain
I'm on my own again
There's no shadow
'Cos there's no light
Searching for a man hiding inside
Shivering

Looking for a way
To put all my grief away
There's no rainbow
'Cos there's no sun
Searching for a unity of one
Shivering

In the daytime I try to forget
All from my childhood I've ever cried for
In the daytime I try to forget
all the chances I've had and lost
In the daytime I try to forget
all my fucked up dead end friendships
In the daytime I try to forget
gone are some of those I've loved the most
In the daytime I try to forget

But when the night comes
It all waits at my door
But when the night comes
It all waits at my door
But when the night comes
They all wait at my door
Oh, yeah the night came
They are waiting at my door

Deep Inside Me

By Filip Prahl

Suddenly I cannot be
The one I used to know
It's gettin hard to say the words
I used to say before

I'm looking for what has changed
The day or the time
It feels like I'm loosing my old days
Deep inside me
It feels like I'm loosing my old days
Deep inside me

Suddenly we cannot be
The ones we used to know
It's gettin hard to say the words
We used to say before

I'm looking for what has changed
The day or the time
It feels like I'm loosing my old days
Deep inside me
It feels like I'm loosing my old days
Deep inside me

I'm falling about my old days
Deep inside me
It feels like I'm loosing my old days
Deep inside me